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I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can’t remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is clearly. It would be ________ to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I don’t mean I would ________ to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate(珍惜)more what I had ________ .

My parents and my teachers saw something in me---a potential(潛能)to live---which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight in out with blindness.

The ________ lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down so unfamiliar staircase alone. I ________ something bigger than that: a confidence that I am, although being imperfect, a real, positive(積極的)person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

It took me years to discover and strengthen this confidence. It had to start with the easy and simple things, ________ a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was laughing at me and I was ________ . “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take with you,” he encouraged me, “and roll it around.” The words were always in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ________ before; playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I ________ a successful skill of baseball. We called it ground ball.

I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my limitations(限制). It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited bitterness of failure. I would fail something anyway, ________ on the average(平均)I made progress.

【1】A. helpful B. wonderful C. hopeful D. successful

【2】A. fail B. try C. want D. prefer

【3】A. lost B. left C. used D. cared

【4】A. hardest B. boring C. simplest D. easiest

【5】A. think B. consider C. guess D. mean

【6】A. Later B. Soon C. Once D. Then

【7】A. worried B. hurt C. shocked D. encouraged

【8】A. important B. unimportant C. possible D. impossible

【9】A. invented B. discovered C. ordered D. directed

【10】A. so B. for C. but D. and

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】B

【4】A

【5】D

【6】C

【7】B

【8】D

【9】A

【10】C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述一位盲人因一次意外事故失明后如何克服困難，重新定位自己，取得人生價值的故事.

【1】C考查形容詞及語境的理解。句意：如果能再次看到將會是非常棒的。此題考查形容詞，A. helpful有幫助的；B. wonderful極好的；C. hopeful有希望的； D. successful成功的。聯(lián)系前后文，故選C。

【2】D考查動詞及語境的理解。句意：但是一場災(zāi)難會對人造成奇怪的影響，我并不是說我更喜歡看不見東西，我只是說，失去了雙眼讓我更加懂得欣賞/感激我所剩下的。此題考查動詞，A. fail失�。籅. try嘗試；C. want想要；D. prefer更喜歡。根據(jù)句意，故選D。

【3】B考查動詞及語境的理解。句意：但是一場災(zāi)難會對人造成奇怪的影響，我并不是說我更喜歡看不見東西，我只是說，失去了雙眼讓我更加懂得欣賞/感激我所剩下的。此題考查動詞，A. lost失去； B. left剩下； C. used用過；D. cared關(guān)心。根據(jù)句意，故選B。

【4】A考查形容詞及語境的理解。句意：我要學(xué)習(xí)的最艱難的第一課就是要相信自己，我并不是僅僅說那種自信。此題考查形容詞，A. hardest最艱難的；B. boring無聊的；C. simplest最簡單的；D. easiest最容易的。根據(jù)句意，故選A。

【5】D考查動詞及語境的理解。句意：我說的不僅僅是從不熟悉的樓梯上下樓的那種自信，我意思是比那個更大一些的東西。此題考查動詞，A. think認(rèn)為；B. consider思考，認(rèn)為； C. guess猜想；D. mean意思是。根據(jù)句意，故選D。

【6】C考查副詞及語境的理解。句意：此處是作者在講一件事情，一次一個人給了我一個室內(nèi)棒球。此題考查副詞，A. Later以后；B. Soon不久；C. Once一次；D. Then接下來。根據(jù)句意，故選C。

【7】B考查動詞及語境的理解。句意：聯(lián)系上下文，根據(jù)上一句的I thought he was laughing at me可知，作者認(rèn)為那人在嘲笑他，因此他很受傷。此題考查動詞，A. worried擔(dān)心；B. hurt受傷；C. shocked震驚；D. encouraged鼓勵。根據(jù)句意，故選B。

【8】D考查形容詞及語境的理解。句意：這給了我一種想法，我可以實現(xiàn)我以前認(rèn)為不可能的一些目標(biāo)。此題考查形容詞，A. important重要的；B. unimportant不重要的； C. possible可能的；D. impossible不可能的。根據(jù)句意，故選D。

【9】A考查動詞辨析及語境的理解。句意：上下文，根據(jù)后文的a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball可知，這是一種全新的，他們自己命名的，因此是他發(fā)明的。此題考查動詞，A. invented發(fā)明；B. discovered發(fā)現(xiàn)； C. ordered命令；D. directed引導(dǎo)。故選A。

【10】C考查連詞辨析及語境的理解。句意：不管怎樣，我會在某件事情上失敗的，但是總的來說，我還是進(jìn)步了。此題考查連詞，A. so因此；B. for因為；C. but但是；D. and并且。根據(jù)句意，故選C。